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[Schemata are] knowledge structures that represent objects or events and provide default assumptions about their characteristics, relationships, and entailments under conditions of incomplete information.

— Paul DiMaggio Paul J. DiMaggio (1997)

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Organizations compete not just for resources and customers, but for political power and institutional legitimacy, for social as well as economic fitness.

Organizations tend to model themselves after similar organizations in their field that they perceive to be more legitimate or successful.

Institutional theory presents a paradox. Institutional analysis is as old as Emile Durkheim's exhortation to study 'social facts as things', yet sufficiently novel to be preceded by new in much of the contemporary literature.

Institutionalism purportedly represents a distinctive approach to the study of social, economic, and political phenomena; yet it is often easier to gain agreement about what it is not than about what it is.

Organizations may try to change constantly; but, after a certain point in the structuration of an organizational field, the aggregate effect of individual change is to lessen the extent of diversity within the field.

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